Improvement in hose-nozzles



L. POH & C. SHOOP.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS POH AND CHARLES SHOOP, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN HOSE-NOZZLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 195,643, dated September 25, 1877; application liled June 16, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LOUIS POH and CHARLES SHOOP, both of the city of Buffalo, in the county of Erie and Sta-te of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Hose- Nozzles, which improvements are fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Our invention relates to that class of hosenozzles which are employed with garden-hose and street washers, and which combine a plain jet and a rose-sprinkler, through either of which the water may be discharged by properly turning the plug which controls the ilow of Water through the nozzle.

Our invention consists tof the particular construction of the hose-nozzle, so that the water will pass through the same in a straight unbroken current, whether the jet or sprinkler is used, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of our improved hosenozzle. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation at right angles to Fig. 1 through one of the water-passages leading to the sprinkler, line x Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the plug.

Like letters of reference refer tolike parts in each ofthe gnres.

A represents the body of the nozzle, provided with a conical seat for the reception of a solid plug, B. C is the induction-pipe ot' the nozzle, provided with an internal screwthread for securing the nozzle to the hose. D is the central discharge-pipe, through which the plain jet or stream is thrown, and E the .chamber of the rose-sprinkler surrounding the discharge-pipe D, which latter forms an axial continuation of the induction pipe C. The chamber E communicates with the plug-seat by two openings, e c, arranged on opposite sides of the central pipe D in the longitudinal direction of the plug, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The plug B is provided with a central water-passage, f, corresponding in size with the bore of the central dischargepipe D, and two side water-passages, g g, arranged on opposite sides of the central passage f, so as to register with the openings c e of the sprinkler-chamber. The side waterpassages g g are arranged at an angle, preferably, of about forty-five degrees, with the central water-passage jl The induction-pipe C of the nozzle is provided with a central opening, h, and two side openings, i fi, corresponding in size and arrangement with the waterpassages j' and g g of the plug.

Upon placing the plug B so that its central water-passage f coincides with the opening h and pipe D, as shown in Fig. 1, a plain jet will be thrown from the nozzle, the coincidence of the water-passages g g and the openings e e of the sprinkler-chamber and t 'i of the induction-pipe being broken. By turning the plug B, so as to cause its side waterpassages g g to register with the openings e e and i t', as shown in Fig. 2, the wateris directed into the sprinkler-chamber, while the central discharge-pipe D is closed. Upon continuing the turning of the plug in the same direction the water is entirely shut o" from the nozzle.

It will be seen that in both cases, whether the jet or sprinkler is used, the water is conducted to the discharge-orice through straight water-ways of uniform dimensions, thereby enabling the nozzle to throw a greater quantity of water to a greater distance than nozzles in which the water-ways are curved or broken and of uneven size.

When the side passages g g of the plug are arranged at an angle of forty-live degrees to the central passage f, the three movements ot' the plug, including the jet, sprinkler, and shut-O', are contained within a quarter-turn ot' the plug, making the manipulation of our improved nozzle very easy and convenient.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with the induction-pipe C, provided with openings h and 't' t', and central discharge-pipe D, and surrounding sprinklerchamber E, provided with openings e e, ofthe solid plug B, provided with a central waterpassage, f, and side passages y g, arranged at an angle therewith, so as to form straight communications, respectively, between the openings han'd i and D and c e, as and for the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

LOUIS POE. CHARLES SHOOP.

Witnesses:

EDWARD WILHELM, CHAs. J. BUOHHEIT. 

